Tuck Everlasting

1. Natalie Babbitt Tuck Everlasting

2. Natalie Babbitt

3. Prologuepp3-4 Vocabulary symbolism personification simile imagery idiom • Figurative Language • Symbolism • Personification • Simile • Imagery • Idiom • How are the three events related? • How does the author go about setting the scene for the story?

4. Chapter 1pp5-8 Vocabulary tangent ambled bovine immense • Figurative Language • Draw an illustration of the setting as described in this chapter. • How does the author make the setting an actual character in the story? • What foreshadowing takes place in this chapter? Explain its significance.

5. Chapter 2pp9-12 Vocabulary melancholy rueful • Character Development • Figurative Language • How is it possible for people to look exactly the same for eighty-seven years? Make connections and explain your thought process.

6. Chapter 3pp13-16 Vocabulary cross stationary hysterical frantic resentful anxiously exasperated • Character Development • Figurative Language • What could possibly be the connection between Mae Tuck and Winnie Foster? Explain using evidence from the text.

7. Chapter 4pp17-21 Vocabulary jaunty self-deprecation retorted remnants reluctantly • Character Development • Figurative Language • Who do you think the stranger was looking for? Explain. • Winnie’s grandmother thinks the music is elf music; Winnie thinks it belongs to a music box. What do you think? Use evidence from the story to support your thinking. • How are Mae, Winnie, and the stranger connected?

8. Chapter 5pp22-30 Vocabulary galling venture consolingly self-assurance resentful sternly irrelevantly primly solemnly plaintively • Character Development • Figurative Language • Why does Mae say, “The worst is happening at last,”? What is the worst thing that could happen?

9. Chapter 6pp31-36 Vocabulary burly perversely implored faltered • Character Development • Figurative Language • The man in the yellow suit saw Winnie being taken away and knew it wasn’t her family. Why did he do nothing to stop Mae, Jesse, and Miles? • What do you think the Tucks will tell Winnie? Will they really take her home in the morning? • How would you feel if you had been kidnapped like Winnie had been? Why does she not react as expected?

10. Chapter 7pp37-41 Vocabulary • Character Development • Figurative Language • If you were Winnie, would you believe the story the Tucks just told? Explain. • List the pros and cons of living forever.

11. Chapter 8pp42-45 Vocabulary scornful parson elated receded • Character Development • Figurative Language • Do you think that there are other people out there like the Tucks? • Why is Winnie so willing to go with the Tucks? • What will the stranger do now that he has heard the whole fantastic story?

12. Chapter 9pp46-49 Vocabulary colander embankment • Character Development • Figurative Language • Why did Angus Tuck react the way he did toward Winnie?

13. Chapter 10pp50-55 Vocabulary assaults submission indomitable perilous helter-skelter lolled cavernous camphor disarray • Character Development • Figurative Language • Draw a picture of the setting as described in the chapter. • Do you think living forever is a blessing or a curse? Explain. How does each person in the Tuck family feel about it?

14. Chapter 11pp56-59 Vocabulary luxurious • Character Development • Figurative Language • What feeling of foreboding does Angus Tuck have? What does he mean by saying, “‘I got a feeling there ain’t a whole lot of time,’”? • How do you think Winnie’s family will react?

15. Chapter 12pp60-65 Vocabulary anguish • Character Development • Figurative Language • Do you think Winnie can comprehend what Tuck is explaining to her? Do you think he has convinced her not to tell about the spring?

16. Chapter 13p66 Vocabulary • Character Development • Figurative Language • Do you think Winnie’s family will believe the man in the yellow suit, or will they be suspicious of him? Explain.

17. Chapter 14pp67-72 Vocabulary • Character Development • Figurative Language • If you were Winnie and you were propositioned by Jesse, would you wait six years and then drink from the spring? Explain your thought process.

18. Chapter 15pp73-75 Vocabulary illiterates constable ordeal • Character Development • Figurative Language • Is the man in the yellow suit being helpful? • Why does he want the wood? • Will the Fosters agree to his terms? • What do you think will happen to the Tucks and their secret?

19. Chapter 16pp76-80 Vocabulary roust cahoots cantering gander • Character Development • Figurative Language • Where do you think the man in the yellow suit is going? • What do you think the constable’s impression of him is?

20. Chapter 17pp81-88 Vocabulary teeming reasserting • Character Development • Figurative Language • What is the symbolism of the frog/toad in the road? • What would you do if you had all of the time in the world? • Why did Winnie tell Miles to put the fish back?

21. Chapter 18pp89-92 Vocabulary • Character Development • Figurative Language • How have Winnie’s feelings for the Tucks changed? • Will the man in the yellow suit endanger the Tucks? Explain.

22. Chapter 19pp93-100 Vocabulary metaphysics petulance • Character Development • Figurative Language • Were Mae’s actions justified? Explain.

23. Chapter 20pp101-105 Vocabulary unflinchingly • Character Development • Figurative Language • What do you think will happen to Mae? To the man in the yellow suit? To Winnie?

24. Chapter 21pp106-110 Vocabulary acrid • Character Development • Figurative Language • Make a list of the pros and cons of the death of the man in the yellow suit. • Is murder ever justified? Write your initial response and then have a conversation with your family about the topic. Following your conversation, write about your family’s views.

25. Chapter 22pp111-115 Vocabulary gingerly • Character Development • Figurative Language • Would you help a murderer escape? • Do you think Winnie will save the water and drink it when she turns 17?

26. Chapter 23pp116-120 Vocabulary gentility prostrate • Character Development • Figurative Language • Examine how the author makes the setting a character. • Do the Tucks need Winnie? If so, how? What does Winnie represent to each one of the Tucks?

27. Chapter 24pp121-126 Vocabulary exultant obliging • Character Development • Figurative Language • What is the symbolism of the poem, “Stone walls do not a prison make/ Nor iron bars a cage,”? • Jesse’s parting words were, “Remember.” Do you think Winnie could ever forget?

28. Chapter 25pp127-133 Vocabulary profoundly unwittingly constricted staunchly apprehension accomplice custody wistful • Character Development • Figurative Language • With the lapse in time, what do you think happened to the Tucks? • Why did Winnie use the water on for the frog? Does this mean she does not plan on drinking from the spring when she turns 17 to go in search of Jesse?

29. Epiloguepp134-139 Vocabulary imposing • Character Development • Figurative Language • What do you believe is the theme of the novel?

30. Novel Projects • Write a response to literature explaining your views on the theme of the story. • Write a persuasive advertisement or letter for or against one of the following options: • Living forever is a blessing or a curse • Everyone should/should not drink from the fountain of youth • Write a narrative about one of the following options: • The Tucks’ escape • Six years in the future when Winnie turns 17